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The digital won't let me go
Digital Living I know I spend an enormous amount of time quarelling with computing and electronics equipment. Microsoft, as always, has seen the enormous potential of a huge market, and for years has been plugging away at a home computing platform, Media Center.
16 May 2005, 11:40
Are slow dual-core CPUs better than fast single-core CPUs?
Digital Living In the modern computing world there is less emphasis on numbers -- MHz and GHz mean relatively little. If I have a computer with a 2.66GHz quad-core processor, will it run my software and games faster than my 3.2GHz single-core Pentium 4?
4 July 2007, 14:35
CES: Drama in the desert, but what's the story?
Digital Living The problem is partly to do with bridging the gap between simple devices with relatively few functions and complex computing devices with an enormous number of settings and options, including the world of pain known as networking.
4 January 2006, 11:43
Beware the industry of cool
Digital Living The phenomenal success of the iPod has expanded the cult of Mac computing into a mass-market industry of cool. Do you have an iPod yet? There are certain painful issues of identity and crisis bound up in the whole business of music.
16 September 2006, 7:00
End the gadget madness and put the iPod down
Digital Living A sinister bulge from a concealed mobile phone, a jacket hanging oddly from the heavy weight of a PDA, cruel silver Samsonite briefcases containing God-knows-what computing firepower. This iPod thing is not a fad.
18 March 2006, 8:00


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